Steve Jobs, Apple

Salary, $1Once the master of his own 'reality distortion field,' Jobs has toned down his bravado and turned up the performance, turning Apple into the company he always boasted it would be: a world-changing entity that is also a market leader: it is second only to ExxonMobil in market cap among US companies. Since returning to the company in 1997 when Apple bought his NeXT Computer (which gave Apple the basis of the Mac's current operating system), Jobs has taken just a buck salary while giving shareholders an 8,333% return.